Community widgets

The following community widgets are now available as "fat" widgets, that is they are installed or removed for both LC 8 and 9 and they work identically in both. All widgets are available on "Sample Stacks" or via livecodeshare (as given below). An asterisk (*) indicates a new feature (and/or a re

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 149

Hi all, Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #149 here: https://goo.gl/KQUHv1 This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and around

Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

Does anyone have any code or suggestions for reading the data from PDF forms? I have several hundred form fields in 5 different design forms in PDF format that I need to extract. The data is mainly text fields but may include a few checkboxes and radio buttons. Any thoughts please? Thanks Pete

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

before wheel invention it might be prudent to see how the existing apps do this. especially if this is a one shot. https://pdf.wondershare.com/top-pdf-software/free-pdf-to-csv-converter.html -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 7:45 AM Peter Reid via u

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

That looks like an interesting list. We just started on a new app in LC for managing troves of scanned documents, and one of the tasks we were planning to add was connecting to an OCR service and a PDF-converter. On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:04 AM Stephen Barncard via use-livecode < use-livecode@lis

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

Have you heard of my app? :-) What I do on a Mac is tell Acrobat (via Applescript) to create an fdf file which is an xml formatted file of all the values in the form controls. I then have a function that parses that file into a livecode array. Windows is trickier, because you cannot tell acroba

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

I didn't see in any of the descriptions a way to script or automate conversions. I suppose if any has a watch folder auto conversion feature that could work. Bob S > On Oct 10, 2018, at 08:08 , Mike Kerner via use-livecode > wrote: > > That looks like an interesting list. > We just started

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

I should have mentioned, you need Acrobat for this, Reader won't do it, and any Acrobat alternative would need to be able to run javascripts. Bob S > On Oct 10, 2018, at 08:16 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Have you heard of my app? :-) > > What I do on a Mac is tell Acrobat (

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

On macOS, try PDFzone (on the App Store). Great app. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-liv

How to tell if a file path is just the path or includes a file name

Lets say you have a bunch of file paths - some are just paths (all folders) and some end in a file name (and the file may or may not exist). i.e. /Folder1/Folder2/Folder3 /Folder1/AnotherFolder/Somefile.txt /Folder1/Folder2/Folderwith.intheName How would you test to tell whether a given record is j

Re: How to tell if a file path is just the path or includes a file name

there is a folder returns false on Mac if it's a file. Unless the file is a bundle (app). A Mac app is in fact a folder that has been flagged as an application. Looking at your code, are you trying to extract the paths to all the files, or determine which are folders inside a given path? If yo

Re: How to tell if a file path is just the path or includes a file name

Duh, you are right. No loop is needed for what I want! function isPath pSomePath   set itemDel to slash   if there is not a folder pSomePath then     -- remove the last item and try again     delete last item of pSomePath     if there is not a folder pSomePath then    return false -- neither t

Re: Community widgets

Why not write a HyperCard-app to make the excellent SheepShaver solution freegy and generally accessible? Sendt fra min iPhone > 10. okt. 2018 kl. 11:48 skrev hh via use-livecode > : > > The following community widgets are now available as > "fat" widgets, that is they are installed or removed

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

I have used https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ server version in the past. Mark On Oct 10, 2018, 8:48 AM -0700, Peter Reid via use-livecode , wrote: > Does anyone have any code or suggestions for reading the data from PDF forms? > I have several hundred form fields in 5 differ

Re: Community widgets

Freely, of course Sendt fra min iPhone > 10. okt. 2018 kl. 17:54 skrev Ingar Roggen via use-livecode > : > > Why not write a HyperCard-app to make the excellent SheepShaver solution > freegy and generally accessible? > > Sendt fra min iPhone > >> 10. okt. 2018 kl. 11:48 skrev hh via use-live

Re: Community widgets

This is really nice stuff. I love the datepicker! Thanks so much for contributing to the community, Herman. hh? Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Oct 10, 2018, at 8:54 AM, Ingar Roggen via use-livecode > wrote: > > Freely, of course > > Sendt fra min iPhone > >> 10. okt. 20

Re: Stacks whose names start with "rev"

Thanks very much Monte, that's exactly what I wanted to know. For simple editing it sounds like I could just turn off messages, open the stack from Finder, and turn messages back on, bypassing preOpenStack entirely. If that doesn't work you've given me a couple of other things to try. I'd stil

Re: Community widgets

> Bill P. wrote: > I love the datepicker! Relating to the datepicker widget I should once again acknowledge the basic work of Elanor (calendar widget) and Bernd (additions to the calendar widget) and hints/comments by Bernd. [The algorithms I used are translated to LCB from the LCS of Raspi stack

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

Doesn't seem to work. I enter this syntax in a terminal session: pdftk "/Users/bobsneidar/Documents/Installs/3PL Logistics/Hawthorne/20130815-3PL Logistics Site Survey.pdf" output "/Users/bobsneidar/Documents/Installs/3PL Logistics/Hawthorne/20130815-3PL Logistics Site Survey_data.fdf" generate

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

On 10/10/2018 10:16 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Doesn't seem to work. I enter this syntax in a terminal session: pdftk "/Users/bobsneidar/Documents/Installs/3PL Logistics/Hawthorne/20130815-3PL Logistics Site Survey.pdf" output "/Users/bobsneidar/Documents/Installs/3PL Logistics/Ha

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

Have you tried leaving off the output filename? Should dump it to stdout then. Mark On Oct 10, 2018, 10:29 AM -0700, Mark Wieder via use-livecode , wrote: > On 10/10/2018 10:16 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: > > Doesn't seem to work. I enter this syntax in a terminal session: > > > > pdf

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

That's why I enclosed them in quotes. Dragging the files into the terminal creted paths with delimited spaces, but I got the same result. Bob S > On Oct 10, 2018, at 10:28 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 10/10/2018 10:16 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: >> Doesn't seem

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

Still locks up. I have an email in to the guy who maintains it. I just thought if someone had this working they could provide me with proper syntax. I cannot get the prompt working either. This from the man page: pdftk [ input_pw ] [ ] [ output ] I'm not

Re: Stacks whose names start with "rev"

For anyone following this, simply opening the stack with messages turned off doesn't work for very long. As soon as you perform any significant action (click a control, change cards, etc.) the stack is reset to mode 2. But doing this in the message box does persist: set the _ideoverride of s